NOTi:S ON EAST AKIUCAN MAMMALS. 685 



;55. Notps on EnsI-, African Mammals, collected 1920-1923. 



By AllTIIUK I.OVKUIDGF., F.E.S., C.M.Z.kS. 

 [Received Augvist 14, 1923 : Head Octobrr 23, 1923.J 



Contents. 



Page 



Introduction C85 



Primiites C87 



Chiroptera G02 



Iiisectivora 696 



Uodpiitia 698 



Carnivora 709 



Uiigulata ■ 732 



Jntuoduotion. 



The present paper may be looked upon as supplementary to the 

 1915-1919 notes*, as localities then recorded are not repeated 

 (except in one or two in.stances) or similar obseivations duplicated. 



A new feature of the present paper is the inclusion of care- 

 fully ascertained native names from only those tribes in whose 

 district the specimens were collected. I consider it of importance 

 that these names should be collected as soon as possible for, with 

 tlie inci-easin<f facilities for travel, many tribes — especially along 

 the Central llailway — are rapidly forgetting their specific names 

 for animals and adopting the blanket-names of the town-bred 

 coast Swahili, who calls every rat, excepting Oricetomys, " Panya." 

 The rat-eating Wagogo and Wanyaturu, on the other hand, have 

 specific names for almost every species. 



I have avoided using names supplied by other tribes until that 

 particular animal has been collected in their particular district, 

 as when a. native is asked for the name of an animal he is not 

 familiar Avith he will invariably supply you with the name of the 

 nearest creature in appearance to it that he knows, and at times 

 these may not be even related (e. g., lemurs and squirrels, or 

 mole-rats and blesmols). For these reasons a very large per- 

 centage of the names collected by travellers and given by 

 Matschiet are quite wrong {e.g., oh p. 65, " Uma mwitu " is 

 given for the jackal instead of " Mbweha"), Umba ya mwitu is 

 the hunting dog, and means "dog of the bush." Matschie gives 

 for its Chigogo (not Kigogo) name " Mbua ya porini," wdiich is 

 merely the concoction of a bright native, as Iminzi is the correct 

 Chigogo equivalent. None but a naturalist can hope to obtain 



* Loveiidsc, " Notos on East African Mammalia." In Jour. E. A , & Uganda Nat. 

 Hist. Soc. No. ]6, ])]). .18-12 ; No. 17, pi). 39-69. 

 t Matseliie, " Die Sangetliiere JJ. O. A," 1895. 



